Ultimatevenom215 proudly presents…
The Underground!
For every age there is a time of trail.
The rock faces such a fire before It is the strength beneath our feet.
The plants brave vast winds before there roots can give us life.
As a sage of considerable years I have known only one such great ordeal.
But it created heroes that were champions for all time…
Dead town, East of haven city:
The landscape was a wasteland a murky swamp meandered in and out of ruined or decaying buildings, fog blanketed this destroyed land of filth , the smell was like a cross between rotting meat and sulphur.
In the midst of the wasteland a young man popped his head from behind a large grey boulder , he was obviously on his guard and checking if the coast was clear , The guy had light blonde hair that fell back onto his neck, He had a small green goatee that complimented his other features really well , he was wearing blue tunic with a piece of red cloth around his neck , on his forehead there was a pair of night vision goggles and there was a strap on his back that held a small weapon his name was Jak.
Jak swiftly crouched down and hid his head behind the rock he turned to his goofy looking partner with red hair and matching tunic, Daxter
"Coasts clear Dax" he whispered drawing his shotgun sized weapon , Daxter did the same Jak gave Daxter the signal to follow him as he cautiously left the hiding place staying in a crouched position. Though Jak showed no signs of nervousness Daxter was shaking and looked around rapidly ready to scream at the slightest sign of movement , he did look like he was gonna explode
"Uh…Jak?" Daxter asked nervously watching his back
"Remind Me again what were doin' here." Jak smiled standing up from behind a rock and scanning the area with his gun
"Y'know , the basic drill. One of praxis' eco tankers crashes (Which I really don't think was an accident) and samos wants us to get to it before the metal heads do." Jak Explained moving to behind a small destroyed wall flowed by Daxter
"Metal heads? I hate metal heads" Daxter said as he felt his stomach drop
"Yeah but y'like money don't ya. Samos says were gonna get an early payday if this shit goes as planned." Jak and Daxter jumped over the wall and cautiously crossed a bridge
" Log in the heads actually gonna pay us this time?" Daxter asked almost sounding shocked
"Heh , that's a-" Jak suddenly grabbed Daxter by his neck and pulled him behind a large rock
"Get down!" Jak hissed they both peered over the top of the rock and saw two creatures walking through the ruins of a destroyed building , what looked like blood was dripping from their jaws that were filled with dagger sharp teeth , they were large but not tall kind of hunched over , there head back and shoulders were covered with grey armour, they had red eyes with no eyeballs and in the middle of their forehead was a glowing gold "Skull gem" .
These were Metal heads. They appeared to be talking to each other Jak watched confused , they disappeared from Jaks eye line so he peered over the side of the rock watching them walk off into the mist
"What do we do now?" Daxter asked Jak turned his head to Daxter and smiled nodding towards the metal heads
"We follow" he whispered he then began to crawl after the metal heads holding his gun firmly , Daxter gulped eyes widened then reluctantly followed Jak.
Jak and Daxter followed the metal heads to the crash site of th eco tanker there was at least Twelve metal heads surrounding the huge black vehicle with smaller barrels of eco attached to its under belly.
Jak and Daxter climbed to a high ledge to get a better view , when the got to the top they were surprised to see two members of the cities defence the Crimson guard standing around and doing nothing about the fact that metal heads were their . One larger metal head approached one of the guards
"Its late" It hissed in a inhuman tone of voice that sounded English
"This is the shipment. The baron says: "Take it and get the fuck outta here!" the guard replied pointing his gun at a smaller metal head that was growling , a metal looked up to the high ledge and spotted Jak & Daxter it slipped silently away from the pack and climbed to the ledge. The large metal head squared up to the guard scanning him up and down with his fire-red eyes ,
"Its late" it hissed again
"Were getting' short on eco" The explained
"And the leaders getting short on patience" it turned to the other metal-heads and hissed something in a different language they immediately began to collect the barrels the larger one turned to the guard
"We will have …Triple the order by next week or… well, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" the metal-head snarled at the terrified guards. Jak & Daxter watched intensely then Jak turned to Daxter
"Why are the guards giving the metal heads eco?" he whispered
"Goddammit! I told ya the baron wasn't 100 kosher. Did I call it or-?" Daxter whispered jestering with his hands , Jak slid down the rock they were l lying on and turned to Daxter
"We gotta tell samos, now!" he said Jak and Daxter prepared to leave , they turned round and there eyes widened at what they saw , a huge metal stood on the rock above them , Daxters jaw dropped several inches from his beaver like teeth as he stood in shock at the feet of the creature
"OH MY-!" the metal head let loose an ear-splitting roar that attracted the attention of the metal heads and crimson guard: Jak ad Daxter had been found.
Jak ripped out his gun fired a spray of red bullets into the monsters chest black flipping off he rock and onto the ground landing in a crouched position he span round and aimed his gun at the metal heads on the tanker. Jak flipped a button and his small weapon became a large blue Gatalling gun he pulled the trigger and rapid bullets flew threw the air like a swarm of wasps about too land in some orange Juice.
The impact sent metal heads flying In all directions spraying purple blood around the area.
Jak caught his breath and pumped a bullet into the metal head commandos head , Jak rolled towards the crimson guard Jak smashed the frist one in the face with the but end of his gun he then elbowed the second one and smacked the third one in the face.
He approached the eco tanker as metal heads fled . Daxter jumped down from the ledge
"YEAAAAAHHHHH, We did it !!!!" he screamed in triumph dancing on he spot
"Whatever…" Jak sighed aiming a yellow sniper rifle at a metal head
"Thread the needle…" he whispered, Jak pulled the trigger sending a yellow bullet flying towards the metal head , the something unexpected happened the bullet hit a barrel of eco Jak widened his eyes
"HIT THE FLOOR!!!!!" he screamed diving to he left Daxter didn't move and was caught off guard .
The Barrel exploded into a purple fire ball Daxter was blasted into the swampy water with a splash he disappeared.
"DAX!" Jak screamed running over to where Daxter had fell in the water he ran into the bog franticly moving water and crap with his hands
"DAXTER!" he called again in the hopes of a reply , suddenly an orange rat came up for air
"JEEEEEEEEEEEZ!!!" it screamed in Daxters voice it was wearing miniature goggles that resembled that of what Daxter was wearing, the Daxter-Rat swam like a Maniac for shore ,it or he stood up , the rat was at the most 60cm in height he was tiny and His fur was sodden from the murk water
"Okay… samos has so got to start doin' his own crap!!!" Daxter screamed at Jak who stood almost frozen in shock and wide-eyed at his partners appearance Daxter continued
"That's it! I'm outta this underground shit Jak! Burger kings hiring and no-ones gonna bite my head off there! Who's gonna miss me anyway! Its not like the undergrounds got no-"
"Dax!" Jak interrupted
"Whaaaat?" Daxter asked stretching his arms out in front of him Daxter suddenly noticed his skin was gone… and in its place fur Daxter slowly lowered his arm eyes wider than ever before, so wide you almost could not see his pupils Daxter took a deep breath then there was absolute silence …Daxters eyes grew back to there normal size
"Oh…Crap!" he breathed he then lost his balance and fainted.
Haven city .
The towering palace home to haven city's ruler baron praxis stood hundreds of feet above the streets, heaven city was a city in walls , the city walls and shield system kept the animals out! The city itself was divide into sections The main city was a majestic complex a lot like new York a huge statue of the baron stood in the area out side the place known as the heart of haven, the main city also had a stadium were city races were held regularly. The slums and water slums looked entirely different, it looked like a cross between a Chicago ghetto and the grand canal of Venice , the grassy areas that lead into haven forest and the mountains were green and tree full were the city grew its vegetables, and the finial section resembled an Arabian Ba-Zar with tents and old desert huts.
On the outside of a freeway that connected the slums and the Ba-zar known as "The B-zone" was a small laboratory. Inside Jak and a scientist looked over Daxter who was lying on a operating table and was being scanned by many lasers. The lab was small but the area it had was filled wit computer consoles and screens and other technooligetic stuff a hologram of Daxter floated in the middle of the lab , the scientist (Vin) observed the hologram and the effects the dark eco ad had, Vin had a big streak of white hair over his otherwise bald head , he wore black shades over his eyes , his body clothes were a white lab coat and brown tan boots Vin looked at the hologram and smiled intrigued "Fascinating" he whispered to himself "Rather than killing you (as one might expect) the dark eco has mutated you into some sort of … ottsel"
Jak at Vin puzzled "What's a-?"
"Ottsel? It's a cross between a otter and a weasel." Vin replied smiling at Jak
"Standard genetic science page 123. Great book"
"HEY!" Daxter barked making both men jump
"What can you do to help me doc..?" Daxter asked turning his head towards vin , vin looked back at Daxter with a grim face , Daxters heart dropped into his stomach and he felt like hed just bin hit in the head with a sledge hammer
"Actually Daxter….There's nothing we can do!" vin smiled nervously scratching the back of his neck ,
Daxter sat bolt upright eyes wide and full of tears for several minutes there was complete silence then Daxter broke down into tears
"Oh god…you're gonna kill me! You wanna sing at my funeral Jak? Coz its coming my friend!" Daxter Cried his words were barley addible due to the fact that he was crying and he was resting his head in the palm of hands , vin turned to Jak
"You do know there's a brief at the underground at five right?" Vin smiled
"Yeah! But thanks" Jak said his gaze still focused on the sobbing Daxter , vin moved closer to Jak and whispered in his ear
"Listen word on the street is that the metal-head leader is close to developing technology that could destroy the city Shield. If that happens were fucked! And all you little underground retards will to be fucked! "
Jak turned to face vin who continued to whisper
"This cities gonna go the way dead town went. Baron praxis doesn't care about us! When war comes he wont give a flying fuck! About all the innocent kids as long as he saves his cycloptic butt."
Jak was silent for a while as he thought of a little What if? Scenario , his thoughts were interrupted by a banging and he looked up out of his thoughts to see Daxter banging his head off the operating table
"Why me!? WHY ME!? " Jak turned back to vin
"Between you and me I think the barons got a little deal going on with his little metal friends"
Vin Narrowed his eyes and thought of what the baron was concocting
"Unless we find some new defence I reckon we are all gonna die at the end of this"
South bay, Haven city:
A huge building stood floating on top of the water in the south bay of haven city, it was several stories high with circular windows on each floor. The building it self was made up of green bricks and a straw roof a wooden spiral platform connected the bottom of the building to the top and the structure was kind of slanted. No-one suspected that the old hut was actually headquarters to the fabled "Underground".
Jak and Daxters boat pulled in at the docking area at 4:57 , Jak stepped off the boat he was wearing his civilian clothing now just a orange t-shirt and cream pants sitting on his shoulder was Daxter who was scratching his chest franticly
"Yuck I am not one for the whole fur/Flea thing. This could have a serious impacted of the Lady factor Daxter said now reaching to scratch his back
"Dax you don't have a lady! You've NEVER had a lady" Jak chuckled
Daxter narrowed his eyes
"Yeah well. That don't mean it aint never gonna happen."
"It aint!" Jak replied
"We'll maybe you'd have more girls if you weren't such a Cu-!"
"Hey guys" interrupted a girls voice both guys turned in the direction of the voice to see a sexy young purple haired girl she was wearing a tight pink top and jeans, her hair was tied into a ponytail and she wore dark make up. Jak blushed and waved
"Hi Kirea" he said smiling
"Perfect time! Dad was just yelling for you! You know where the war room is" Kirea looked at Jak lovingly then turned to Daxter
"What's this? Your pet?" She asked pointing at Daxter
"Pet? I'm all man babe!" Daxter said rasing his eyebrows
Kirea widened her eyes
"DAXTER?!" she asked puzzled staring at the tiny ottsel her eyes slowly grew back to normal size
"You look…"
Daxter grinned "Sexy?"
"..Furry." Kirea sniffed the air around Daxter then waved her hand passed her nose
"And you smell like a dog (And that's not compliment) you need a bath."
Daxter grinned "No problem babe you can take one with me!"
"Excuse me… I don't date animals.!" Kiera said before turning back to Jak and smiled
"See ya later" she walked off Jak looked at her as she walked away with goo-goo eyes Daxter broke into the world of bliss
"Hey! Don't get any ideas! She's the bosses daughter!" He said sharply Jak began to walk up the spiral platform that would take them to the war room.
A huge conference table dominated the area in the open air room at the top of the hut . Jak approached it slowly eyeing who was present foe the meeting .
Directly opposite to them was the underground leader : Samos the shadow he had white hair that had a log going through it and a white beard, his skin was light green that remind Jak a bit of Kermit the frog , he had
two black eyes that he wore glasses on , he was wearing green tunic and brown belt , he was a short man but he wore two tree stumps on his feet that made him appear taller in his left hand he held a green staff.
On the left side of the table sat vin who ran the undergrounds computers And Torn who ran the street network of the underground , Torn had many tattoos across his young face and many scars that looked like each one was a lesson learned.
On the right side was the head of Haven cities army: Sig. He was black and wore armour made from Metal Head skulls he held a huge gun in his hand and that two had metal-head skulls on it he had one fake eye that glistened in the evening sun.
Also on the right of the table was samos' right hand man : Kor he was an old man with white he wore a gold emblem on his fore-head his hair was grey and looked like a lions-mane. The moment the two reached the table all eyes fixed on Daxter ,
vin spoke up " I have informed them of your situation Daxter." Daxter jumped from Jaks shoulder and onto the table as Jak took a seat
"All right people!" samos said banging his staff onto the table
"The focus of this meeting will be the growing threat of the metal heads and safety of our men on the streets"
Sig stood up from his seat
"If I may sir.. can I just say that my troops cannot hold back the metal heads in haven forest. It's a massacre! Every day! This week alone the death toll was-!"
Torn interrupted and said in gruff voice "Well it isn't exactly flowers and daisies here ether man!"
Sig looked taken a back by this comment "I never said it-"
Torn suddenly stood up from his chair and lent over to sig pointing at him violently
"Yeah well , don't think we have it easy just 'cause we're inside the city" he snarled
"Gentlemen settle down." Samos said pushing his staff between the two he looked at Jak and gestured with his hand
"Jak , I understand yesterdays mission didn't go quite as planned."
Jak rose fro his seat as sig and torn sat down
"Well… we saw the crimson guard giving eco to a group of metal heads" Jak explained , everyone went wide-eyed at this comment except Kor who began to twitch nervously
"Jak are there witnesses?" Vin asked
Jak was hesitant to answer "Uh.. No! both crimson guard Involved were (ahem) killed. Ether than that its just me and Daxter."
"Without witnesses it just you're word against the barons My dear boy. And we know who the courts are going to believe" Kor wheezed in a British accent
"Excuse me ! can please get back to the metal head problem! If things don't improve I'm gonna have to pull out." Sig said
"You can't do that!" Torn barked
"I have to ! for the good of the men!"
"SCREW YOUR MEN! What about all the men and women AND children that will die if the metal heads take the city. Your men will have to die for us! I mean what else can we do?"
"There is one thing…" Vin began everyone turned to him
"Well we could create a special team of super-humans and mutants to deal with the metal-head problem! Confront the beasts with a new kind of beast. Like a super-hero team."
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME! HAHAHA! SUPERHEROS?" Daxter laughed but Jak thought about it he stroked his goatee sitting back in his seat, he contemplated
"Super hero team" then a smile spread across his face …Maybe they weren't all gonna die after all
NEXT: Calling of the champions